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Johnson v. India Tea Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Feb 23, 1940
304 Ill. App. 255 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

Opinion

Gen. No. 40,935. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed February 23, 1940

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 117.2highway collision, sufficiency of evidence. Jury properly found defendant guilty of negligence, where its truck, proceeding west, was about to make a left turn, but it was stationary while turned south, so as to partially block both lanes of the highway, such truck was not visible to cars approaching from the west because of a hill, and the car in which plaintiff was riding came from the west and collided with the truck just past the brow of the hill, on the south lane of the highway.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Circuit Court of Cook county; Hon. DANIEL P. TRUDE, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in second division, first district, at October term, 1939.

W. Harold Rutherford, for appellant;

Richard E. Keogh, of counsel;

Rosen, Francis Cleveland, for appellee;

James B. O'Shaughnessy, of counsel.


"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed February 23, 1940.


Summaries of

Johnson v. India Tea Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Feb 23, 1940
304 Ill. App. 255 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
Case details for

Johnson v. India Tea Co.

Case Details

Full title:Elizabeth Johnson, Appellee, v. India Tea Company, Appellant

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: Feb 23, 1940

Citations

304 Ill. App. 255 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
26 N.E.2d 185